If we had a depression in 2009, I think it would be invisible. People are so self-conscious with their lives, if they have food stamps, social security, of Medicaid it’s an embarrassment for several people. I look at it today as an advantage if we have theses things because in the Great Depression of the 1930's they had nothing, they had no help. Today, kids are kids and parents are parents trying to get jobs and keep their families healthy. But what is it that we pay? We pay medical bills. Instead of there being lines at soup kitchens there are lines to get into the emergency room. Our parents, trying to apply for financial aid because schooling and education is becoming to hard to afford. We kids know that if we don’t dress in "Hollister, or Abercrombie and Fitch" you aren’t what kids call "hip." I recently worked at a store called Tj Maxx and in the past three years they have became busier and busier every year. During the Christmas season the store is packed with people trying to find knock off of these clothes. If we were to get hit with a really bad depression again, and it was like the 1930's my family would be lost. My mom works as a full time loan officer at a bank, which of course is the worst job when a Great Depression hits. Many of the banks would close down which would cause my mom to loose her job, and my dad’s job would be the only thing supporting our family. My dad owns his own business; he paints houses and tiles floors. With the depression the last thing people want is for their house to be painted, so on that note my dad would most likely have to shut down his business. This would definitely affect my family and we would have to work around the money loss. I think that if the Great Depression does hit again, it will be once again invisible. The Great Depression is invisible to several people because people would experience loses privately, not publicly. Many of the depressions that hit us today are found to be isolated, we as human beings don’t want to be judged and several families will try to hide their finical stabilities.
